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Peter Evans |
Aug 27 2006, 05:32 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 24-August 06 Member No.: 13 |
Mankind (or if you prefer humankind) managed to communicate without smilies for centuries. Millennia, even. Now, perhaps a lot of people think they're cute, perhaps a lot more people think that they need to have them because the precise nuances of their comments might otherwise be misunderstood, and gawsh, people are so sensitive, y'know?
I found smilies interesting for a period of about five minutes perhaps five years ago. But now, I'm sick of them. Just about every bloody forum I go to has them. (Lean, mean old htmlhelp.com/bbs/ is a refreshing exception.) It's just byte-wasting crapola, really. No smilies, please. |
Peter Evans |
Sep 2 2006, 09:20 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 24-August 06 Member No.: 13 |
Yes, smilies suck.
Consider this thread. I am here going to have to refer to lowercase letters of the alphabet as "ay" and "bee" (even though I actually wrote "a" and "b"). I wrote: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Preview showed me QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and ([some stupid smiley]) flamebait, etc. I noted that "emoticons" were enabled (funny, I thought I'd disabled the **beep** [thank you, nannyware] things in my profile). I disabled them, and re-previewed QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Now I read: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (a) messages such as mine and ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) flamebait, etc. Ugh. Can't smilies be completely disabled? I don't want autoconversion into smilies. I don't want smilies. I don't want autoconversion out of smilies to ugly text. All I want is intelligent text on web-related issues, not *beep* equivalents of winks and nudges and the mess they cause. |
Liam Quinn |
Sep 2 2006, 10:34 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 52 Joined: 2-August 06 From: Canada Member No.: 1 |
Yes, smilies suck. Consider this thread. I am here going to have to refer to lowercase letters of the alphabet as "ay" and "bee" (even though I actually wrote "a" and "b"). I wrote: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Preview showed me QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and ([some stupid smiley]) flamebait, etc. I noted that "emoticons" were enabled (funny, I thought I'd disabled the **beep** [thank you, nannyware] things in my profile). I disabled them, and re-previewed QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Now I read: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (a) messages such as mine and ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) flamebait, etc. When composing a message, there is a Post Options section with an "Enable emoticons?" checkbox. If you uncheck that, then you should be able to type stuff like (b) with no worries. |
Christian J |
Sep 2 2006, 10:41 AM
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